Interview with Sister Consuelo Heaps, C.S.J., September 17, 1981, Tape 1, Side 1
Identifier
pitt:20230202-ssjb-0017-t1s1
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Title
Interview with Sister Consuelo Heaps, C.S.J., September 17, 1981
Subject
Holy Name Parish (Duquesne, Pa.), Carnegie Steel Works. Duquesne Works, Sisters of St. Joseph of Baden, Heaps, Consuelo, Catholics, Nuns--Religious life, Ethnic relations, Family life, Discrimination
Description
[t1s1]Sister Consuelo Heaps talks about her father: a Presbyterian; worked for Carnegie Steel Works in Duquesne; lost a leg in the mill around 1904; his artificial limb; locomotive engineer in the mill. She talks about growing up in Duquesne in the early 1900s: ethnic groups and churches; recreation; summer job at Nugent’s in Braddock. She talks about her freshman year as a “Catholic militant” in public school; Holy Name High School. [t1s2]Sister Consuelo Heaps talks about her grade school and high school education at Holy Name. She talks about playgrounds; anti-Catholicism; Carnegie Steel Works contributions to Duquesne; World War I; 1918 Spanish Influenza Epidemic; family life; growth of Duquesne.
Contributor
Sisters of St. Joseph of Baden (depositor), Heaps, Consuelo (interviewee), Witt, Sally (interviewer)
Date
1981-09-17
Type
oral histories (literary genre)
Format
cassette tape, 92 minutes
Identifier
pitt:20230202-ssjb-0017
Language
eng
Relation
Sisters of St. Joseph of Baden Oral History Collection
Coverage
Duquesne (Pa.)
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